Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software

ISBN-13: 9780140287752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str.

Steven Johnson

Opis

This work argues that it is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down. Complexity is resolved through simplicity. Everywhere the same laws are obeyed, the same swarm logic is at work.

O autorze

Steven Johnson is the US bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, Future Perfect, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad Is Good for You. He is the founder of a variety of influential websites and has written for Time, Wired, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.